Hello Leo,
For starters, try and initialize velocity with a Properties object loaded
using a Resource. Make sure that velocity.properties is in the classpath.
e.g.
------------------------
InputStream vProps =
this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/velocity.properties");
try {
Properties properties = new Properties();
properties.load(vProps);
VelocityEngine velocityEngine = new VelocityEngine();
velocityEngine.init(properties);
VelocityContext context = new VelocityContext();
}
catch(Exception e) {
logger.error("velocity engine failed to initialise", e);
}
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Also, in velocity.properties you have to specify the template loader to use.
(have a look here for template loaders,
http://jakarta.apache.org/velocity/developer-guide.html#Configuring%20Resource%20Loaders)
Try ClasspathLoader
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resource.loader = production
production.loader.description = "Production Resource Loader"
production.resource.loader.class =
org.apache.velocity.runtime.resource.loader.ClasspathResourceLoader
----------------------
When using velocityEngine.getTemplate(String) just make sure that the path is
in the following format
--------------------
templates/myTemplate.vm
--------------------
and that "templates/" dir is in the classpath since you are using a
ClasspathResourceLoader
Regards,
Markos
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 09:06, Leo Asanov wrote:
> Hi!
>
> What is the right way to initialize Velocity outside
> of a servlet? My application works fine when I'm using
> VelocityViewServlet, but when I'm trying to initialize
> Velocity from any standard Java class (with
> Velocity.init(absolutePathToPropertiesFile))
> Velocity.mergeTemplate always throws
> "ResourceNotFound" exception.
>
> I guess this happens because Velocity cannot get
> parent directory of a web application without a
> reference to servlet context. But I'm not sure what I
> can do with this. I can't specify absolute path in
> velocity.properties and I would prefer to avoid
> setting path properties directly in the code (I don't
> know how to it anyway - tried
> Velocity.setProperty("file.resource.loader.path",absolutePathToTemplateDire
>ctory) and it didn't work).
> Maybe it's possible to pass a "default directory" path
> somehow?
>
> Cheers,
> Leo Asanov
>
>
>
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